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Recently, we get to watch computer monitor and phone for a long time and this makes our eyes very tired and dry. When your eyes feel tired, try to rest your eyes first and do not watch TV or overwork. Additionally, I will introduce some foods that can help to make our eyes healthy and some foods that is not good for eyes. Good foods for our eyes 1. Cassia seed Cassia seed is representative food that makes our eyes healthy. Cassia seed contains vitamin A, vitamin C, carotene, and kaempferol that prevents amblyopia and improves on sand-blindness. (※People with low blood pressure should avoid having cassia seed) 2. Carrot   Carrot protects our eye sight and prevents night blindness. Carrot is enriched with vitamin A which maintains our eye’s outer mucous membrane healthy and moisturized that could also prevent amblyopia. 3. Cheese Cheese also prevents amblyopia as it is enriched with vitamin A and iron that stops accumulation of fatigue. ...

Gluten is a type of protein that is included in foods like flour, and this component can cause various problems to people who have allergies. Recently, campaign of having gluten-free foods started from USA and EUROPE. Gluten-free diets became popular across many people after famous celebrities joined this campaign. Famous model Miranda Kerr, said “I never eat white colored food (flour) because that is poison”. Kim Kardashian, who is admired by many women for her perfect body shape, said “Gluten-free diet is the best”. Then, is gluten really bad for our body? Gluten is a type of insoluble protein which presents in wheat, barley, rye and so on. Its molecule structure contains sugar and lipids, and it has effect of expanding leaven which could be used to maintain shape of bread and cookies while thickens and seasons foods. There are various foods contain gluten, including bread, pasta, cake, biscuit, assorted snacks, soup, syrup, salad dressing, sausag...

Do you know why Vitamin D is important? Usually, Vitamin D is known as a component that is formed in our body when our skin is exposed to sun. However we wear sun blocks to avoid various skin disease and skin aging due to long exposure into UV rays. Thus the amount of Vitamin D formed in our body is very less while the sun disappears shortly during winter. According to Health Insurance Review & Assessment Service’s research in 2015, the number of people who are lacking Vitamin D, had been increased 77.9%. Then why do we have to supply on Vitamin D? Vitamin D maintains adequate amount of calcium in our body while helping our intestine to ingest on calcium well. Also, this component is important as this takes an important role to produce new immune cells. Average adults usually absorb 30% of calcium that they consumed, however this becomes difficult when a person is lacking Vitamin D. Additionally, Vitamin D has effect of anti-cancer, wh...

It is easier for our body to become unbalanced during winter as we tend to exercise less due to cold weather as well as eat more and drink more. This year’s cold is predicted to be colder than last year and your body condition may become worse if you just stay inside all day. So today, we are going to have a look at some health management method that will maintain us healthy during this winter. Ventilate the air every 1-2 hours. It is easy to get diseases on respiratory system such as cold because we tend to focus on indoor activities where assorted dusts, viruses and wastes flow around. Thus it is ideal to fill indoor with fresh air by ventilating at least every 1-2 hours. Drink adequate amount of water, at least 1.5L a day. It becomes really dry indoor when heaters are on which can make it easier for our body to get respiratory diseases as the mucous membrane on our nose and bronchial tubes, the first barrier of our body that protect us from w...

Most of people are already aware about ‘black food’ which was a massive boom between people in these days who are interested in healthy life. Black colored foods encourage kidney function as well as improving on the reproductive system. The pigment called ‘anthocyanin’ that is enriched in black colored foods, builds up on antioxidative ability in our body as well as preventing various diseases. Even in Chinese medicine, black colored foods are known as foods that improves on kidney functioning which is related to the body’s fundamental energy, as well as improving on one’s condition. ‘Black bean’ that is enriched with components that prevents aging and cancer According to Donguibogam (Principles and Practice of Eastern Medicine), beans are non-poisonous food that protects five organs and warms up on intestine. Black bean has almost same effect to medicine, including detoxification, nerve sedation and blood circulation improvement. Black bean is enric...